Senior Tech Strategy for Organizations Building a Better World
Brandolon Barnett brings 15+ years of product and technology leadership to nonprofits, foundations, and social enterprises navigating digital transformation. Whether you need a fractional CTO, a product strategy partner, or a trusted voice in the boardroom — DreamForge Advising meets you where you are.
Fractional CTO / CPO
Embedded senior tech leadership without the full-time cost. Ideal for organizations that need strategic product and engineering guidance on a part-time or project basis.
Product & Technology Strategy
Roadmap development, build-vs-buy decisions, platform architecture reviews, and AI readiness assessments — grounded in what actually works for mission-driven organizations.
Board & Executive Advisory
Serving as a tech-savvy advisor to boards and leadership teams navigating digital investments, vendor partnerships, and emerging technology decisions.
Launch & Scale Support
From MVP to market: hands-on support helping social enterprises and nonprofit tech ventures define their product, validate with users, and build toward sustainable scale.
Who This Is For
How Brandolon Works
Discovery
A focused conversation to understand your organization's mission, current tech landscape, team capacity, and the decisions you're navigating.
Scoped Engagement
We define a clear engagement: advisory retainer, project-based, or fractional leadership — structured to fit your budget and timeline.
Embedded Partnership
Brandolon works alongside your team — attending key meetings, reviewing materials, making introductions, and providing candid strategic counsel.
Outcomes & Handoff
Every engagement ends with your team more capable than when we started — with artifacts, frameworks, and institutional knowledge that outlast the engagement.
Giving Compass — Strategic Advisory & Product Partnership
Brandolon served as a long-term strategic advisor to Giving Compass, a digital platform connecting donors with high-impact giving opportunities across every cause area. Over the course of the partnership, Giving Compass grew into one of the most comprehensive philanthropy intelligence platforms in the sector, combining curated content, AI-powered recommendations, and a network of foundation partnerships to guide over $1 billion in philanthropic decisions.
Ready to Talk Strategy?
Engagements are limited. Reach out to explore whether DreamForge Advising is the right fit for your organization.
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Pre-Seed Funding & Startup AI Tools
Investing Through DreamForge
Each year, DreamForge will invest a minimum of $10,000 in early-stage ventures led by founders from underrepresented backgrounds.
We look for teams building tools and systems that strengthen communities — whether through data, technology, or civic innovation.
Investments are made on founder-friendly terms and paired with hands-on mentorship, access to our accelerator, and a community of peers.
Think your venture aligns with our mission?
Check out our investment criteria and if your product and positioning fit reach out through our contact page to learn more.
Pro-Bono or Paid Advice
Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a your social impact passion into a thriving venture. Maybe you want help with your grantmaking or nonprofit technologies and processes. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. We’ve helped some of the largest and most successful companies, NGOs, and Philanthropic Institutions in the world. It’s our passion and mission to help you too. We can work with you and your team to create new strategies for your corporate social responsibility (even for small startups), new products and product roadmaps, refreshed visions for existing product lines, project plans for validating product concepts, new social impact programs, and more. We provide Pro-Bono advice for those who need it, paid advice at a rate of $150 per hour or as an advisor for small equity grants. And we engage in larger custom engagements.
Tech for Good Bootcamp
A hands-on course teaching leaders how to design, fund, and launch technology that creates positive social impact. Developed and led by Brandolon Barnett, the bootcamp is targeted to nonprofit leaders and government staff. It blends real-world case studies, product design methods, and impact frameworks used across philanthropy, government, and the private sector. It concludes with a pitch competition where these leaders create solutions that could help them in their roles, in the process taking on the mindset of technologists. Attendees leave empowered with the same tools large tech companies are using to transform work and our world at large, enabling them to use those same powerful tools not just for profit - but for good.